Samizdat Blog

The American south really is another country, or so I’ve thought from time to time.  And I thought it again earlier today, when a guy I ...

Fret not, gentle reader: though the title of this post might make it sound like I'm about to embark on a rage-fueled rant against al...

John Ashbery is such a perfect translator of Rimbaud, so thoroughly plugged in to the right kind of French sensibility, that one really wo...

My first book, published back in 1998, was Word Play Place , a collection of essays I edited about the poetry of John Matthias.  I'm h...

Daniel Nester interviews Micah Robbins. Nester:  My latest shibboleth—I’d like to run it up the pole here for you and see what you th...

Although it's been over a year since the death of Andrei Voznesensky, I've only just heard the news.  Voznesensky was one of the...

So there's this , an account in the Chicago Tribune  of how people feel about what's been going on at the Poetry Foundation.  If...

Robert Kroetsch—one of the most important Canadian writers of his generation—has died in a car accident at the age of 84.   I had the priv...